diff --git a/ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS b/ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
index 0ae1b3f..7828186 100644
--- a/ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
+++ b/ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Thanks to Thomas Voegtlin for creating the Electrum software and
-infrastructure and for maintaining it so diligently.  Electrum is the
+infrastructure and for maintaining it so diligently.  Electrum is
 probably the best desktop Bitcoin wallet solution for most users.  My
 faith in it is such that I use Electrum software to store most of my
 Bitcoins.
diff --git a/HOWTO.rst b/HOWTO.rst
index a308607..0abd542 100644
--- a/HOWTO.rst
+++ b/HOWTO.rst
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ this:
 
 These are just informational messages about addresses that have very
 large histories that are generated as those histories are being
-written outt.  After the flush has completed a few stats are printed
+written out.  After the flush has completed a few stats are printed
 about cache hits, the number of writes and deletes, and the number of
 writes that were elided by the cache::
 
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ You may see one or two logs about ambiguous UTXOs or hash160s::
 
     2016-10-08 07:24:34.068609500 INFO:DB:UTXO compressed key collision at height 252943 utxo 115cc1408e5321636675a8fcecd204661a6f27b4b7482b1b7c4402ca4b94b72f / 1
 
-These are an informational message about artefact of the compression
+These are informational messages about an artefact of the compression
 scheme ElectrumX uses and are harmless.  However, if you see more than
 a handful of these, particularly close together, something is very
 wrong and your DB is probably corrupt.
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 77a6ddc..b05a3d7 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ Miscellany
 
 As I've been researching where the time is going during block chain
 indexing and how various cache sizes and hardware choices affect it,
-I'd appreciate it if anyone trying to synchronize could tell me their::
+I'd appreciate it if anyone trying to synchronize could tell me::
 
   - their O/S and filesystem
   - their hardware (CPU name and speed, RAM, and disk kind)
diff --git a/lib/coins.py b/lib/coins.py
index 9201bfd..66aa621 100644
--- a/lib/coins.py
+++ b/lib/coins.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# See the file "COPYING" for information about the copyright
+# See the file "LICENSE" for information about the copyright
 # and warranty status of this software.
 
 
diff --git a/lib/hash.py b/lib/hash.py
index ae83b8c..28fb399 100644
--- a/lib/hash.py
+++ b/lib/hash.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# See the file "COPYING" for information about the copyright
+# See the file "LICENSE" for information about the copyright
 # and warranty status of this software.
 
 import hashlib
diff --git a/lib/script.py b/lib/script.py
index 18b3c07..adfb23f 100644
--- a/lib/script.py
+++ b/lib/script.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# See the file "COPYING" for information about the copyright
+# See the file "LICENSE" for information about the copyright
 # and warranty status of this software.
 
 from binascii import hexlify
diff --git a/lib/tx.py b/lib/tx.py
index e5ec49b..dfa417c 100644
--- a/lib/tx.py
+++ b/lib/tx.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# See the file "COPYING" for information about the copyright
+# See the file "LICENSE" for information about the copyright
 # and warranty status of this software.
 
 from collections import namedtuple
diff --git a/lib/util.py b/lib/util.py
index 5f25deb..d23598a 100644
--- a/lib/util.py
+++ b/lib/util.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# See the file "COPYING" for information about the copyright
+# See the file "LICENSE" for information about the copyright
 # and warranty status of this software.
 
 
diff --git a/server/db.py b/server/db.py
index da2c34b..797c917 100644
--- a/server/db.py
+++ b/server/db.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# See the file "COPYING" for information about the copyright
+# See the file "LICENSE" for information about the copyright
 # and warranty status of this software.
 
 import array
diff --git a/server/env.py b/server/env.py
index ea3ddae..42dbe1a 100644
--- a/server/env.py
+++ b/server/env.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# See the file "COPYING" for information about the copyright
+# See the file "LICENSE" for information about the copyright
 # and warranty status of this software.
 
 import logging
diff --git a/server/server.py b/server/server.py
index 97bcb6c..2618d2b 100644
--- a/server/server.py
+++ b/server/server.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# See the file "COPYING" for information about the copyright
+# See the file "LICENSE" for information about the copyright
 # and warranty status of this software.
 
 import asyncio
diff --git a/server_main.py b/server_main.py
index e6c7e61..70d0884 100755
--- a/server_main.py
+++ b/server_main.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 
-# See the file "COPYING" for information about the copyright
+# See the file "LICENSE" for information about the copyright
 # and warranty status of this software.
 
 import asyncio